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The heterogeneity of economic space is its natural property. At the same time, high levels of inequality can become a threat to the integrity of the socio-economic system and cause its slower development. In this regard, the problem of uneven spatial development is relevant for spatially extended economies (both national and regional) and is reflected in strategic planning documents. This article is devoted to the issues of spatial development of the largest subject of the Russian Federation – the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), – whose socio-economic development strategy notes increased intra-regional differentiation and disunity of economic zones, which is classified as the main challenges to the spatial development of the region. At the same time, this strategy does not highlight a list of measures to reduce the difference in the level of development of municipal districts, and also does not indicate the consequences of the implementation of the activities and projects planned by the strategy in the context of the spatial development of the region and its unevenness. In this paper in the context of municipal districts, an assessment was made of the effects of the implementation of large investment projects in the mining sector, which, according to the development strategy of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), will remain the main source of economic growth in the region. The study was conducted using a regional intersectoral model taking into account multiplier effects and spatial heterogeneity. Based on the obtained estimates, it is shown that the implementation of raw materials projects can cause an increase in intra-regional differentiation of economic development. The possibility of shrinking the economic space of the region in the absence of measures to equalize imbalances is noted. As a compensatory mechanism for the spatial heterogeneity of effects, an increase in the localization of effects from the implementation of these projects in various areas (localization of production, employment, redistribution of the part of the rent withdrawn from the extractive sector to the tasks of spatial development of the region) is considered.

"We all go to school.nobody wants to be here, but that's the way it is! Everyone's got to get schooled." Countless hours committed to classroom, playground and homework naturalize an otherwise arbitrary arrangement best understood as "getting schooled." School participants fundamentally understand this education process is about acquiring explicit systematic instruction. This dissertation presents the school experience as a place of multiple meanings where Intra-ethnic differentiation examines the process of identity categories among adolescents within a Chicano-Latino community set in a South Central middle school of Los Angeles, California. This study documents the multiple categories as intra-ethnic differentiation among Chicano Latino school youth, defined as an experience of community fragmentation where members express distinct in-group differences that contrast an external appearance of homogeneity and or solidarity; fragmented into multiple dynamic identities set in internal relationships of rank. The intra-ethnic inventory include: "cholos", "schoolies", "players", "los americanizados" ( the Americanized), "Chuntaros"( rift raft, undesirable poor), " the Mexican-Mexicans", "county rushers", " punks" and "posers." The expressed divisions are characteristic of fluid boundaries involved in dialectic between-group relationships creating, modifying and challenging power, prestige and resources. The following text demonstrates that each identity is accompanied by respective educational, social, economic, and institutional opportunities and boundaries. The different identities exist as consequence of strategies of adaptation to socio-economic, political and national pressures. In a scholastic context, ethnic membership becomes a commodity of change responsive to survival mechanisms; identity models develop as abstract processes that are both self and externally defined and accompanied with real world consequences. The students must contend with and navigate identity fields they did not create. The demands, expectations and socioeconomic arrangements of the larger non curricular society are reflected and "acted out" on the school grounds.

Yelena Symonchuk trägt mit ihrem Buch dem weltweit gestiegenen Interesse für die Gewährleistung der Sicherheit in der Region Zentralasien Rechnung, das insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit den Änderungen in der globalen Sicherheitsagenda entstanden ist. Sie untersucht, ob in Zentralasien ein regionaler Sicherheitskomplex gebildet worden ist, durch welche Besonderheiten er sich auszeichnet und was die Störungen für ein wirksames Funktionieren regionaler Sicherheitsmechanismen bewirkt. Hierzu analysiert die Autorin den regionalen Sicherheitsdiskurs, die Zusammenhänge im Sicherheitsbereich zwischen den zentralasiatischen Ländern sowie die Sicherheitsdynamiken in fünf Sektoren. Der Inhalt Zentralasiatische Sicherheitsdiskurse Bilaterale Beziehungen im Sicherheitsbereich zwischen den zentralasiatischen Staaten Intra-regionale Sicherheitsdynamiken Sektor-Analyse Die Zielgruppen Studierende und Lehrende der Politikwissenschaft, der Sicherheitspolitik und der Regionalen Studien WissenschaftlerInnen und PraktikerInnen, die Interesse an Sicherheitspolitik in der Region Zentralasien haben Yelena Symonchuk war von 2008 bis 2012 Lehrkraft an der Deutsch-Kasachischen Universität in Almaty, Kasachstan. In über 20 Publikationen hat sie über die Sicherheitspolitik in Zentralasien, Bildung der nationalen Identitäten in post-kommunistischen Gesellschaften und weitere Themen geschrieben. Im Juli 2015 wurde sie an der Freien Universität zu Berlin promoviert

Regardless of how society has evolved, travel and tourism have had a positive development since the end of Second World War. But now it seems that the perception of risk and danger is accentuated and the tourists choose destinations based on more safety and security for tourists. Risks often seem to be based on different global activities and actions from different groups, which the individual can not affect or influence over. These perceived risks thus affect the development of tourism and travel in a global perspective. This article would discuss the new threats to the global tourism due to the terrorist attacks that target different countries and in many cases the popular tourist destinations. With the result that travel has become more intra-regional again. The article makes a review of the slightly incomplete statistics available in the area and discuss possible strategies for overcoming the existing terrorist attacks. The conclusions of the article points to a more concrete cooperation between international and national organizations, governments, as well as NGOs, tour operators and civil society in general.

In 2009, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and the OSCE Academy established the Central Asia Data-Gathering and Analysis Team (CADGAT). The purpose of CADGAT is to produce new cross-regional data on Central Asia that can be freely used by researchers, journalists, NGOs and government employees inside and outside the region. The project is managed and the reports are edited by Kristin Fjaestad and Indra Overland at NUPI. ; publishedVersion